Many people like the open source VoIP software Asterisk, but it's tricky to set up, even for tech-savvy folks. Aretta has developed a hosted version of Asterisk called NetPBX PRO, which offers a friendly setup and has a full range of sophisticated features.…
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Meet The 2600hz Project, The New Sound of Open Source Telephony
Some of the developers behind FreePBX, a well-known open-source phone system, have teamed up and started The 2600hz Project, an entity promoting a collection of open-source telephony applications and libraries. They're releasing blue.box, a reworked version of open source FreePBX.…
Read MoreIfbyphone, VoIP Apps Provider Buys Cloudvox
Ifbyphone acquired Cloudvox in a tie-up of players on the fast-changing Internet voice field. We'll see more consolidation in the space as voice transitions from traditional networks toward an all-IP universe -- and as traditional network operators try to differentiate their offerings.…
Read More8 Flexible, Open-Source (or Just Open) Telephony Resources
Sure, you’re up on Android smartphones and perhaps other Linux-based phone platforms, but the freewheeling world of open source includes many hugely…
Read MoreCool iPhone App: Start Your Car From Virtually Anywhere
In case you were wanting to experience the keyless remote entry system that came packaged with the new Zipcar app, but you…
Read MoreSkype Now Means Business, Friends the SIP World
Updated: Skype has announced it will play nice with corporate PBX systems that use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). While details thus far are fuzzy, according to The Wall Street Journal, the Skype-for-SIP product will be introduced as a beta product and will be tested by a limited number of companies.…
Read MoreQuicknet: What Might Have Been
The technology industry is full of alternate histories, tales of what might have been had things unfolded just a bit differently. We…
Read MoreVoIP Like You Give a Damn
When I checked out Google’s blog post Tuesday about its Free the Airwaves project, which aims to convince the FCC to approve…
Read MoreAsterisk Downloaded a Million Times
Asterisk, the poster child of open-source telephony, was downloaded a million times in 2007, according to Digium, the company started by Asterisk…
Read MoreIs That Voice in Your App?
[qi:086] Things have been tough as of late for plain vanilla VoIP service providers, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that voice over…
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